Books: Out of Africa

No Kiplingesque empire builder is Englishman Clement Egerton. With
anthropology as his excuse, he went to the French Cameroons not to help
bear the white man's burden but as a holiday from civilization. His
native interpreter had previously worked for a professional scientist,
who used a tape measure on everything from a native king's wives to his
pots & pans. In African Majesty Amateur Egerton uses no such tape
measure, but seldom fails to be readable.